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impenetrabilis

impenetrabilis · adj

that cannot be penetrated

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Where it lives

Punica 3 · 0.39/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

impĕnĕtrābĭlis — Lewis & Short

impĕnĕtrābĭlis (inp-), e, adj.2. inpenetrabilis,

I that cannot be penetrated, impenetrable (perh. not ante-Aug.).

I Lit.: silex ferro, Liv. 36, 25: superior pars corporis crocodili (with dura), Sen. Q. N. 4, 2 med.; cf.: tergus hippopotami ad scuta, Plin. 8, 25, 39, § 95: congeries imbribus, id. 8, 36, 54, § 127: cruppellarii accipiendis ictibus, Tac. A. 3, 43: quae impenetrabilia quaeque pervia, id. ib. 12, 35.—

II Trop., that cannot be overcome, unconquerable, unyielding: patet impenetrabilis ille Luctibus, Sil. 6, 413: impenetrabilis blanditiis, Sen. Q. N. 4 praef.: mens irae, Sil. 7, 561: pudicitia Agrippinae, Tac. A. 4, 12.

In the wild

impenetrabilis Silius Italicus, Punica 7.561
inpenetrabilia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 14.90.16.p2
impenetrabilis Statius, Thebais 3.15
impenetrabile Tacitus, Historiae 1.81
impenetrabilis Silius Italicus, Punica 6.413
impenetrabilis Tacitus, Annales 3.p43

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